Even if it's so we can see Sakas' party trick - that little drop of the shoulder and skin the defender that he does at least once every time he plays...and even though we all know he's going to do it, it still seems to work! Beautiful
Go and watch his performance against Exeter, (yes it was a meaningless friendly that meant fuck all) he was shite, and he hasn't improved, he went from first choice to third choice out of three in less that 4 games, if we can bring in another striker in Jan, then he doesn't make the bench when everyone is fit.
Just in the previous game you pretty much said that’s what he was doing.
Yes, I'm concerned about Wright too.
We won't throw away what we have paid for him, we'll work to integrate and improve him. He is struggling with a big fee expectation and settling into a rebuilt squad, but he's young and we will give him time-we HAVE to after what we spent. I agree it doesn't look good now, but neither does Wright.
I do see your reasoning but the midfield is concerning me considerably more along with Robins not trusting Sakamoto enough to put him on the pitch when we’re crying out for some energy.
I get that, but the lack of impact from Simms and Wright is a massive issue.
Let’s revisit this at the end of the season rather than not even 2 months in.
Agree, I think when this is addressed, things will link better, and it's then we will see what our strikers can do. It feels like they are having to drop quite deep at the moment to compensate, which was ok for Vik but we have different style strikers now meaning the midfield need to plug the gap and bring the ball up the pitch more.
I think changes will be made in January, if not our lack of goals will end our play off hopes very prematurely.
They look a bit lost, which I would put down to being new signings with big fee expectation. Simms in particular looks very worried and Wright is starting to. I think sometimes what looks like "lack of workrate" is being a yard off the pace due to these things rather than lazyness. You know what it's like, if you have ever played sport: if you're doing well you buzz about, when it's going wrong, more things go wrong and get on top of you. They both look like strikers that need confidence. Too earlier to right off, but fair enough to be concerned.
I fear that our ability to make changes will be limited.
You shat on my post about playing more direct, but do you not think that Wright from his Turkish league highlights looks like a man who likes to play at a much quicker tempo? Please no turds.
I very much doubt any forwards will be sold in January.
Perhaps it’s just me who thinks so, but a lot of his play reminds me of O’Hare. We knew Palmer wasn’t fit, we put him on anyway when there was a perfectly decent alternative and Ayari didn’t seem to be flagging either.
We have the money but it needs to be spent in the middle.
One thing you will get from Tatsu is high-energy pressing (and given time, stepover!)
You get more than enough to justify bringing him on when the midfield is clearly flagging. Palmer looked knackered but as I said earlier it’s like the manager would have made these changes anyway and at the same time.
I think he doesn't quite see him as an AMC, as he is normally a wide player. I think he's holding him back too much due to the language barrier too, giving him time to settle-sod that, we've seen already that he speaks/understands enough English to make an impact.
Correct on the first point, just from what I’ve seen he’s got the attributes you need for a high pressing skilful AM.
Just about enough from-Swansea, was it? to suggest he can adapt. If he plays that role though I want us getting him in wide positions when we can.
Yes, they barely had a shot within our penalty area
A Hull fan I just spoke to thought he was our best player
Still got 30 left , almost 8 hours round trip
